AMD said that all the graphics cards will be available on Thursday, June 18th, and the cheapest in the series will be the Radeon R7 360 that wll come with up to 2GB memory. This rather small card will start at US $109.

The second card in lineup is the Radeon R7 370 with up to 4GB of GDDR5 memory, has two much bigger fans and starts at US $149. These cards should be enough for basic gamers and DOTA 2 lovers.

For a more intensive setup with 1440p resolution display and beyond, AMD offers the Radeon R9 380 with up to 4GB of memory and price starting at US $199. If you want more, there is the Radeon R9 390 for $329, with support for DirectX 12, of course and with up to 4GB or RAM.

The crown of this lineup is the Radeon R9 390X fit for 4K gaming with 4GB GDDR5 that will sell for US $429. AMD will announce Fiji GPU based graphics card branded as Fury X a bit later.

After a bunch of Catalyst 13.11 Beta drivers released for performance improvements and fixes for certain game titles, AMD has now officially unveiled its newest WHQL-certified driver, Catalyst 13.12 WHQL. The new Catalyst 13.12 WHQL driver brings support for AMD's new Radeon R9 and R7 series graphics cards as well as a long list of AMD Crossfire scaling support improvements and new AMD Enduro profiles for certain game titles. The driver adds support for AMD Crossfire frame pacing and resolves a bunch issues.

The rather extensive release notes starts off with an official official support for AMD Radeon R9 290, 280 and 270 series and AMD Radeon R7 260, 250 and 240 series graphics cards. The new Catalyst 13.12 WHQL driver also brings improved CrossFire scaling in Call of Duty: Ghosts (multiplayer component), Splinter Cell Blacklist, Saints Row 4, and Metro Last Light as well as XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Need for Speed Rivals, Total War: Rome 2, Battlefield 4, Saints Row 4, Splinter Cell Blacklist and FIFA 14.

It also adds AMD CrossFire frame pacing options, which ensures that frames are rendered across multiple GPUs in an AMD CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace, can now be enabled through the AMD Catalyst Control Center and is supported on DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications using resolutions up to (and including) 2560x1600 on a single display.

The resolved issues list for the new Catalyst 13.12 WHQL driver is quite long and although it mostly focuses on certain application specific issues noticed earlier it also resolves intermittent black screens or display loss observed on some AMD Radeon R9 290X and AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics cards, includes update for Power Tune which reduced variance of fan speed/RPM on AMD Radeon R9 290 series fixes intermittent crashes seen in legacy DirectX 9 applications.

As expected considering that AMD has finally lifted the NDA veil from at least a part of its Radeon R9 and R7 series lineup, Powercolor has announced its own lineup with a total of five different SKUs including R9 280X, R9 270X OC, TurboDuo R7 260X OC, R7 250 OC and R7 240 OC.

Based on custom designs, the R9 sereis include two SKUs, the R9 280X and the R9 270X OC. The R9 280X works at 850MHz base and 1000MHz Boost GPU clocks and features Powercolor's own custom cooler that should bring 10 percent lower temeperatures and should be up to 15 percent quieter thanks to its ultra-big 92mm fans and unique SSU-shape heatpipe design. The R9 270X OC works at 1030MHz base and 1080MHz Boost GPU clocks as well as a dual-slot single fan cooler that should keep it well below reference design in terms of temperatures and noise.

The R7 260X is quite an interesting graphics card considering it features Powercolor's TurboDuo cooling solution with dual-slot double fan design. This one works at 1160MHz GPU clock and comes with 2GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6.6GHz and paried up with a 128-bit memory interface.

Powercolor also announced two overclocked R7 250 and R7 240 graphics cards. The R7 250 OC works at 1100MHz base and 1150MHz boost GPU clocks while 1GB of GDDR5 memory ended up clocked at 4.6GHz. The Powercolor R7 240 OC works at 750MHz base and 800MHz boost GPU clocks and packs 2GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1800MHz.

Powercolor definitely has some interesting graphics cards and we will definitely like to see how well those coolers perform. You can check out Powercolor's full lineup here.

Sapphire is one of AMD's AIB partners that has launched a full lineup of recently introduced R9 and R7 series graphics cards including the R9 280X, R9 270X, R7 260X, R7 250 and the R7 240. To be precise, Sapphire decided to announce no less than 13 different SKUs, including members of its famous Dual-X, Vapor-X and the Toxic series.

Sapphire's R9 series will include a total of six SKUs including three R9 280X SKUs and three R9 270X SKUs. What made most of the Sapphire fans quite happy is "the return" of the famous Toxic series with the R9 280X Toxic that will work at 1150MHz base GPU and 1100MHz Boost clocks while 3GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 384-bit memory interface will be clocked at 6400MHz. Judging by the picture, Sapphire's Toxic R9 280X will feature a custom triple-fan cooler as well as a custom PCB with 10-phase VRM.

The Sapphire R9 280X will also be available in Vapor-X and Dual-X SKUs, both with custom dual-fan coolers. The Vapor-X R9 280X will work at 950MHz base and 1070MHz Boost GPU clocks while memory will be clocked at 6200MHz. The Dual-X on the other hand has a slightly lower 870MHz base and 1020MHz Boost GPU clocks while the same 3GB of GDDR5 memory is clocked at 6000MHz.

Sapphire's R9 270X series will be pretty much the same as the R9 280X series with three SKUs including Toxic, Vapor-X and the Dual-X SKUs. The Toxic R9 270X SKU will feature 1100MHz GPU base and 1150MHz Boost clocks while 2GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 256-bit memory interface will be clocked at 6000MHz effective. As expected, the Vapor-X and Dual-X R9 270X SKUs are clocked lower so the Vapor-X R9 270X ended up with 1050MHz base and 1100MHz Boost clocks while memory works at 5800MHz and the Dual-X does not even have Boost option so it works at only 1020MHz base clock with memory clocked at lower 5600MHz.

Sapphire's R7 lineup is even more extensive with a total of seven SKUs including single R7 260X 2GB SKU, two R7 250 SKUs and four R7 240 SKUs. The most interesting part is the R7 260X one that will feature 896 stream processors, 2GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 128-bit memory interface and hit the perfect US $139 price range. The R7 260X is the only currently announced graphics cards that will have support for AMD TrueSound and Mantle API. Sapphire's R7 260X OC SKUs is clocked at 1150MHz for the GPU while memory ended up at 6600MHz.

Two R7 250 SKUs are quite interesting since Sapphire decided to go for a 2GB DDR3 equipped SKU while second one will feature 1GB of GDDR5 memory. Both feature 384 stream processors and a 128-bit memory interface. The R7 250 2GB DDR3 SKU works at 1000MHz GPU base and 1050MHz boost clock while memory ended up clocked at 4600MHz for the 1GB GDDR5 SKU and 1800MHz effective for the 2GB DDR3 version.

As noted earlier, the Sapphire R7 240 series will include four different SKUs with 1, 2 or 4GB of DDR3 or 1GB of GDDR5 memory. All four will feature 320 stream processors and work at 730MHz base and 780MHz boost clock, in case it is equipped with boost and feature 128-bit memory interface.

Sapphire definitely has most SKUs on the market and we are glad that at least some of those will be a part of Sapphire's Vapor-X, Dual-X and even Toxic series.

Radeon boss Matt Skynner announce AMD’s new cards in Hawaii a few minutes ago. He described the new products as the start of a new era.

“Today, we’re announcing the R9 series, squarely targeted at enthusiast users... The R7 at performance users. We’ve got a solution for everyone,” he said. Skynner said AMD is not launching a single card, it is refreshing its product line top to bottom. The new cards are the R7 250, R7 260X, R9 270X, R9 280X and R9 290X.

The R7 250 packs 1GB of GDDR5, it’s priced at $89 and scores 2000 in Firestrike. The 260X has 2GB of memory, it costs $139 and scores 3700 in Firestrike. The R9 270X also has 2GB of RAM, but it’s priced at $199 and hits 5500 in Firestrike, while the 280X has a 3GB frame buffer, a price tag of $299 and scores 6800 in Firestrike. Skynner said it is “designed for 1440p gaming.”

As for the 290X, he described it as the single most powerful graphics chip we’ve ever built. It also has a new heatsink and shroud. The card has 4GB of memory and a 512-bit memory bus. No official word on exact shader count or clocks just yet.

Skynner also said limited quantities of a BF4 Edition card will be available through pre-order only, starting October 3 with select partners.